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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
We, the collective we as a country, have NOT been honest about the problem. Agreed. The problem of mass-murder events is increasing at a high rate in the US (as opposed to the countries). The problem is starting to bite hard into US society. There is no EASY solution. Many (like the NRA) are saying, "just keep the status quo and disregard the children dead in Uvalde." But, what happens in the future, when the children and adults are shot dead in every one of our hometowns and where we now live? When is the problem so large that it can't be ignored?
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The solution cannot be all-or-nothing, as some seem to see it. I fail to see the logic in refusing to implement methods that would provably lessen the number of shootings, apparently in favor of "answers" that even the most strident opponents of the 2nd. Amendment acknowledge would take decades to implement--even if such a decision is reached and made law, which again, the opponents acknowledge has little chance of happening.
This has been suggested here and in other threads numerous times. Sensationalizing these shootings to the extent that media does, has been shown in study after study to cause "copycat" crimes. The numbers vary but many give a minimum of 50% to a maximum of 80% of these shootings are copycat; choice of weapon, choice of target, etc. have tragic similarities, time after time. We CAN limit the reporting to "just the facts". But we don't. We seem, as a society, to WANT the sensationalizing to happen, even though we know it will result in more dead kids.
No one has yet attempted to give a rational reason why we don't do this.